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NOUN
- spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye
- very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
How To Use logwood In A Sentence
- Logwood is not only used for dyeing blacks and greys as the principal colouring matter, but is also used as a shading colour along with cutch, fustic, quercitron, etc., in dyeing olives, browns, etc., and among the recipes given in this section examples of its use in this direction will be found. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
- # -- Until within a comparatively recent time black was dyed on wool solely by the use of logwood, combined with a few other natural dye-stuffs, such as fustic, indigo, etc., but of late the researches of colour chemists have resulted in the production of a large number of black dyes obtained from various coal-tar products. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
- There was a group of men that went to the logwoods, sawing the trees and loading them onto trucks.
- _ -- Work for twenty minutes at 80° F. in a bath of 10 lb. fustic extract, 5 lb. quercitron extract, 2 lb. logwood extract; heat to boil, work for half an hour, then enter in a cold bath of 2 lb. sodium bichromate and 5 lb. copper sulphate; work for twenty minutes, then heat to boil; work for twenty minutes more, wash and dry. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
- The excuse of the Spaniards for most of these seizures was that the vessels contained logwood, a dyewood found upon the coasts of Campeache, The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
- The many disputes and difficulties that arose over the rights of growing and cutting logwood are a matter of history.
- All shades of brown may be obtained by decreasing or increasing the amount of cutch or by adding a little logwood or fustic, in which latter case the cotton should have been previously mordanted. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
- On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
- In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
